Republicans: stop this game of chicken

  I really can't tolerate much more of the "fiscal cliff" chatter. Who's that Imus sidekick who said listening to all the nattering about it is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard?

  Rush says it's all political theater and he's right but, to be honest, I can't listen to Rush much right now. I know that he's right that at some point we'll all get back to hard core politics listening but it ain't now.
  The talk is all baloney, that's for sure.
  Obama has a sick, sick, sick fixation with trashing successful people in this country; some of those successful people have a sick, sick, sick fixation with following his lead on just about everything, probably due to guilt. Warren Buffett is another matter, considering he profits from his own suggestions.
  If Obama were honest, which he's not, he'd admit that his "plan," whatever it is since he doesn't really SHARE that information with anyone, and which doesn't have enough votes in the Senate to pass anything anyway, his "plan" of taxing the rich won't provide enough "revenue" as they like to call our effort/tax dollars/lives to keep this enormous monstrosity of a "government" running anyway.
  And informed voters know that even if the government confiscated all the money from the rich you couldn't even run the government for a year. Watch and see:
  These people aren't serious about balancing this mess, Republicans or Democrats, or they'd be vested with the same anxiety that Tea Partiers have.
  So that's why I support this proposal.
  Let 'em have what they want. Let the Democrats own the economy they've created.
  This is hardball, after all, something Republicans don't seem to understand or know how to play.
  Buckley over at The Spectator sums it up here:

In the short run, our watchword must be “No surrender.” I would have supported a “Grand Bargain” had Romney won and our side taken the Senate, one which traded a modest increase in taxes in return for major cuts against current spending, say on the ratio of one to six. No more. The lesson from the 1980s is that every extra dollar from increased tax revenues disappears down a sinkhole of increased wasteful spending, if Democrats have anything to say about spending. One can’t trust them, and any deal with them makes patsies of us. 

Republicans cannot credibly threaten to shut down the government and look foolish when they try to do so. That apart, they should do nothing to take responsibility for the looming shipwreck of fiscal irresponsibility. Democrats broke it. Let them own it.

  You can read the rest of Buckley's article here, though be warned it's pretty depressing in the short run.
  Gotta love those Obama warnings about not doing this or that or something bad will happen because His Highness does not wish it so.
  So play hard ball, Republicans.
  Do it.
  Just vote present. Let 'em have what they want.
  What's the worst that can happen? Uh, don't answer that. 
  That is, worse than what Obama's already got lined up for us.
  Give him what he wants, watch the pain and be ready to pick up the pieces.
  #nosympathy